A Costume Quotes

#1. In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.

Chuck Klosterman

#2. I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.

Susan Egan

#3. I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

Ian McKellen

#4. I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'

Cara Buono

#5. You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World.

Dave Barry

#6. What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.

Edith Head

#7. It [money] doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water
whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.

Adriana Trigiani

#8. The first time I met Prince he invented me to his birthday party in Minneapolis. It was a costume party and I came as a beatnik - a beret and a charcoal goatee. He was dressed like an executioner. I talked to him for awhile and he didn't know who I was, and when I told him he was real surprised.

Paul Reubens

#9. The tabloid that said that I dressed up as a medieval, like a sexy medieval something and that upset me more than the dating rumors that have been circling around that were fake. If somebody thinks I'm going to dress sexy to a costume party, they have another thing coming.

Jennifer Lawrence

#10. There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

Morgan Freeman

#11. I like a bit quirky, a bit strange, but then at the same time, I love putting a dress on ... and a pair of high heels. It's like a costume.

Sarah Snook

#12. I don't think there's an archetype for the Justin Bieber fan. A Bieber fan just looks like an American. You wouldn't even need a costume to try and resemble one.

Fred Armisen

#13. KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

Ambrose Bierce

#14. And that's when I realized, when you're a kid you don't need a costume, you ARE superman.

Jerry Seinfeld

#15. Everyone feels like they can hide behind a mask or a costume, but in the morning, they still wake up as the person beneath the mask.

Kandi Steiner

#16. You can put on a mask and a costume for the rest of the world, but you can't hide from the people who changed your diapers.

Lisa Unger

#17. He knew in his heart that spinning upside down around a pole wearing a costume you could floss with definitely was not Art, and being painted lying on a bed wearing nothing but a smile and a small bunch of grapes was good solid Art, but putting your finger on why this was the case was a bit tricky.

Terry Pratchett

#18. It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden ...

Edgar Cayce

#19. The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.

Colleen Atwood

#20. You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.

Tommy Chong

#21. Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.

Conor Oberst

#22. I have two rules when you come to my house on Halloween. Wear a costume - 'cause if you've manned your door at your own house, you know how many kids will roll up, 14 years old with no costume and an attitude. My other rule: don't grab. Let me assess you and then design a candy situation for you.

Greg Behrendt

#23. My uniform felt like a costume. I put on a fresh coat of black nail polish. I twisted up a tube of Revlon Red and put my war paint on. I sharpened the tips of my Fierce Words so they were like a row of shiny arrows.

Shirley Marr

#24. Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

Irving R. Kaufman

#25. You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what they're like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

Kurt Busiek

#26. For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.

Noel Wells

#27. Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be alright.

Marya Hornbacher

#28. A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.

Paloma Picasso

#29. Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains.

George Armstrong Custer

#30. I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.

Cassandra Peterson

#31. The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.

Avi Arad

#32. Be able to take any job that gives you experience on a film. Don't just think that you have to be in one department or the other, because through working on one and seeing what other people do in the movie makes you realize what your role is if you become a costume designer.

Colleen Atwood

#33. I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

Tamsin Egerton

#34. For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume ... to do something with your body. When singing in concert, you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.

Andrea Bocelli

#35. They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

Ogden Nash

#36. My body is just a costume for my soul.

Apollo Poe

#37. I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.

Georgina Chapman

#38. I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

FKA Twigs

#39. As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

Patricia Norris

#40. My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

Mamie Gummer

#41. As a costume designer, it's important to give each person his or her own personalized look.

Eric Daman

#42. My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#43. People know me because I play the monsters, but I'm most recognized from the small roles in which they see my face. None of that stuff really bothers me. Whether I'm recognized in or out of a costume isn't a kind of pressure I put myself through anymore.

Kevin Peter Hall

#44. The hybrid European - a tolerably ugly plebeian, taken all in all - absolutely requires a costume:

Friedrich Nietzsche

#45. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.

Terry Pratchett

#46. Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.

Kate O'Mara

#47. In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

Warwick Davis

#48. Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.

David McCullough

#49. Her outfit looked like it been picked by a kindergartner - red sneakers, yellow tights, and a green tank dress. Perhaps she was on her way to a costume party dressed as a traffic light.

Rick Riordan

#50. I need a costume to be convinced that I'm somebody else. Otherwise, it's just me. It's just Amy saying lines. I haven't really become somebody else. And what's the fun in that?

Amy Sedaris

#51. If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.

Warwick Davis

#52. Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

Sam Walton

#53. Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.

Vera Wang

#54. If only your life were a costume, and you could just take it off when you wanted to, leave it hanging on a hook, and walk away.

Brad Barkley

#55. I think that sometimes people don't understand that a costume that has to be worn every day and doesn't change the whole movie becomes iconic. It's very important because it requires a different design process, since you have to make something that people aren't going to get tired of looking at.

Colleen Atwood

#56. I'm not ashamed of my human or my lynx form. I wear clothes because people force me to. I don't need to put on a costume every morning to feel better about myself.
-Jack

Ilona Andrews

#57. I love putting on an outfit or a costume and just looking at myself in the mirror. Baggy pants or some real funky shoes and a hat and just feeling the character of it. That's fun to me.

Michael Jackson

#58. He's wearing a costume," I whispered to Emma. Then, to the guy: "She doesn't see a lot of movies." "A costume?" Emma scrunched her brow. "But he's a grown man.

Ransom Riggs

#59. The Hulk was a unique character because of his strength and power. He doesn't have a costume like Spiderman or like Superman - The Hulk is more visual. His passion and his strength, that is what separates him from anything else.

Lou Ferrigno

#60. All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

Caio Fonseca

#61. Those are pretty much the only questions people ask Colonials. If they want you to tell them anything else, just make it up. They will believe you, because you are wearing a costume.

Leila Sales

#62. I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.

Isabella Rossellini

#63. If the crowd is too big, it's too much for me. I took my daughter down there, and all I did was spend all of my time worrying that she was going to get lost because you're caught between somebody with a sandwich in their hand and somebody in a costume. It's really crazy.

Lance Henriksen

#64. I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

Louise Gluck

#65. It's very lonely, feeling like an outcast. Like you are invited to a costume party, but you are the only one in a mask.

Ellen Schreiber

#66. I know what party you're talking about. I might have to swing through. Especially if you're going to be there in a costume." He winked and leaned back in his seat.
"I'm going as a homeless person."
"Sexy.

Chanelle Gray

#67. I love Pinterest! Pinterest is absolutely phenomenal when you're trying to come up with a costume design.

Ashley Wagner

#68. As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black (It's a sensible colour. It goes with anything. Well, anything black)[ ... ].

Neil Gaiman

#69. Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

Mary Schmich

#70. I'm not a big fan of Halloween. Except for the dressing up part. I love picking out a costume. - Tory

Matthew Leeth

#71. If James Franco's wearing a costume, and I'm wearing a motion capture suit, we don't act any differently with each other because of what we're wearing. We're embodying our roles.

Andy Serkis

#72. At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.

Kurt Busiek

#73. When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way and see how athletic it is. You're not just born like that.

Misty Copeland

#74. It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

Nancy Kerrigan

#75. I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.

Amy Ryan

#76. Believing in the danger which sprang from objects as well as people, which dress, which shoes, which coat demanded less of her panicked heart and body? For a costume was a challenge too, a discipline, a trap which once adopted could influence the actor.

Anais Nin

#77. Unless I'm asked to dress up in a costume, TV shows prefer a clean, modern look, so I've developed a wardrobe full of plain, bright colours. If it's an outdoors job, I just wear big jumpers.

Kate Williams

#78. The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped inside its little book.

Simon Schama

#79. A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

Ronald Reagan

#80. We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

Bryan Batt

#81. I loved Granny Belmonte, but she didn't need a costume to look undead.

Bethany Frenette

#82. I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

Lusia Strus

#83. Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.

Paul Stanley

#84. They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

Owen Hart

#85. When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.

Rachel Roy

#86. I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character.

Warwick Davis

#87. I always wondered why nobody did it before me. I mean, all those comic book movies and television shows, you'd think at least one eccentric loner would have stitched himself a costume.

Mark Millar

#88. All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

Keira Knightley

#89. For me, Halloween is the best holiday in the world. It even beats Christmas. I get to dress up in a costume. I get to wear a mask. I get to go around like every other kid with a mask and nobody thinks I look weird. Nobody takes a second look. Nobody notices me. Nobody knows me. I

R.J. Palacio

#90. I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes.

Ayumi Hamasaki

#91. People get into relationships. They get married and have kids, and all of a sudden, you can't just pick up and go get coffee, or go away for the weekend together, or go to a costume party together. It becomes a thing you have to plan.

Cristin Milioti

#92. I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama.

Martin Freeman

#93. If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

David Benioff

#94. Uh, I feel like there's a Jessica Jones tip somewhere in here about Hollywood and using looks and fame and skintight costume to your advantage or something, buuuuut I'm just gonna skip it.

Kelly Thompson

#95. My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.

Marcel Dzama

#96. Diane Harper had been sneakily copying, and was making a nurse costume, too, but being Diane, it turned out looking more like a Playboy Bunny without the ears. Alison's, however, was beautiful.

Robin Klein

#97. No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.

Helena Bonham Carter

#98. A mask you ask? Optional I find!
Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#99. As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.

Orlando Bloom

#100. I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!

Ian McKellen